ICYMI…this is a must read! #Idaho #Utah

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To be clear about what just happened: The Trump administration sent armed FBI agents to abduct a 78-year-old doctor and former federal public health worker from his home and stripped him because the brainwashed right-wing base, hopped up on a literal conspiracy theory, wants scalps.

🚨 THIS SHOULD SET OFF EVERY ALARM: Louisiana is about to pull the rug mid-election. Let’s be clear what’s happening. 📌Absentee ballots already out 📌Early voting starts May 2 📌Election day is May 16 And just days before voting begins, Gov Landry is planning to suspend the primary entirely.

Breaking: Supreme Court invalidates second majority-Black congressional district in Louisiana, effectively gutting last remaining part of Voting Rights Act

Call me when the NYT is ready for a "12 Bitches Who Were Right about Everything" piece.

This whole presidency is just bouncing back and forth between murder and money laundering with occasional unholy mashups of the two

Turn Sound UP. Go WayBACK. DANCE, Hampster, DANCE ➡️ web.archive.org/web/19990423...

I know we get inured to stuff, but it is hard to fathom the cruelty here. At a time of tax cuts for the most powerful, they are trying to remove basic supports for the most vulnerable. The Trump administration's war on people with disabilities continues.

If you want to talk about “political violence” let’s talk about people being abducted and shipped off for torture without due process.

There were 11 assassination attempts against Obama. Here’s why what happened last night shows that our society is falling apart.

Maybe we instead think about explaining to people what their taxes pay for and why, when people—namely corporations and the rich—don’t pay them, we can’t afford things like law enforcement, firefighters, teachers, nurses, bridges, roads, busses. Maybe we do that instead of slopulism, just a thought.

Sounds like a good plan to me: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb... cc: @princetonupress.bsky.social

By this same logic, Donald Trump bears direct personal responsibility for the murder of Melissa Hortman, the assault on Paul Pelosi, the guy who showed up armed at the Obamas, the attempted pipe bombing of several prominent Democrats, the January 6th rioters who assaulted cops, and many many more.

"John Roberts is perhaps the most powerful and committed racist to serve as chief justice since Roger B. Taney."

Windfall tax on oil companies to pay for rebates on energy price gouging, any Democratic candidate?

TWO DOZEN women took the risk of publicly telling their stories of Trump sexually assaulting them, knowing that doing so would probably ruin their lives. For every one who did that, there had to be, what - 20? 50? 100? - he did it to, but who made the very reasonable decision not to go public.

If you were horrified watching elected leaders run & scramble because of gun violence, just imagine how my daughter Jaime felt in school running from an active shooter before she was killed. Now, become a part of the solution & only vote for people determined to address gun violence in America.

this is america. you could find yourself within 100yds of a shooting at any time, in any place. school, the grocery store, a movie theater, a block party, a public park… it happens to regular people every day. but this week we’ll get 50+ weepy op-eds because it happened to the guys who write op-eds

Thanks to the FTC spokesperson who suggests that @wired.com “Stick to computers.” But no.

Woody just stopped spinning and smiled for a long moment.

This wild document is the basis for the State Department's decision to cancel the visas and green cards of tech researchers who study the social media platforms and of tech regulators who enforce privacy and transparency laws. Disclosed to us last night in @thecoalition.bsky.social v. Rubio.

Here are the top 5 dogs of the week!

If Dems think of court reform as a policy issue, like health care, where they must campaign and win over the public before acting, we're screwed. This only works if they fix the courts in response to many GOP affronts—just like they did in the gerrymandering fight. www.offmessage.net/p/gerrymande...

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cc: All the people who said we were being hysterical when we said the SCOTUS was going to kill pregnant people.

In both the first and second Trump administrations, the number of times a president has asked the Supreme Court to take “emergency” action has increased dramatically. Learn more: bit.ly/4cybln3

I don't support denaturalization for any reason, but if Republicans want to play this game, then Democrats should immediately threaten to denaturalize Melania Trump, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and Rupert Murdoch once they retake power.

Imagine if every year the FBI had a celebratory dinner with the Five Families and told jokes about each other.

cc: @democrats.org, @housedemocrats.bsky.social You can't find common ground with a cult. You can't reach reasonable compromises with fanatics.

States will have to bear more of the SNAP program’s costs under the new budget law. They could respond by making it harder for people to qualify. “My fear is that some states will choose not to operate SNAP at all,” one researcher said.

There are 33,000 homeless military Veterans in the United States.

Nothing makes an Upper East Side rich kid turned DC insider absolutely sopping wet with desire than a fellow rich kid who wears flannel, drives a truck and had an edgy but misunderstood tattoo. God, to be so free….

“German” is working in the kale, packing 24 bunches of kale into each box. "It was 81° at 10am in Ventura County on this day. The sprinklers watering the nearby rows helped keep us cool while we worked." #WeFeedYou

News accounts are straining to portray the Virginia move as a betrayal of Dems' principled opposition to gerrymandering. It's pure bullshit. Dems passed a 2021 bill ending it for *both sides.* The Dem position is that Trump/Rs don't get to play by their own rules: newrepublic.com/article/2093...

Ben Franklin, on why you should get your kids vaccinated: “In 1736 I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the small-pox, taken in the common way. I long regretted bitterly, and still regret that I had not given it to him by inoculation.

I detest term limits, formal age caps, &c. — but it would be good of congressional Dems to accept their mortality & adopt a norm of retiring at 80, if not earlier. Throw a gala! Set up a think tank on strengthening the legislature, where they can be fellows! Just quit dying & leaving vacant seats.

this is how Utah's Congressional map deals with Utah's largest city, cracking it through to the middle into 4 different districts in order to deny it Congressional representation to make sure Dems get 0 seats

Here's the definitive answer to the debate over "who started it": Republicans. Before Trump pushed TX to gerrymander last year, the GOP had drawn 42% of all districts, versus just 14% for Dems (the rest were by neutral parties). The maps below from @stephenwolf.bsky.social make this explicit.

Priceless post from the official White House social media

Thirteen U.S. troops died trying to get these people to safety — Afghan interpreters, soldiers, and the families of our service members. Veterans spent sleepless nights during the chaotic withdrawal fighting to keep them alive. Now our own government is going to abandon them.

For those of you who arrived at your polling station and are still waiting in live to vote for fair election maps in Virginia. Stay in line. The cutoff time is 7pm, but if you got there before that then you still get to vote. Do not leave until you’ve had a chance to vote! #VoteYesVirginiaToday

seems like a really good reason to organize and bargain this

The only purpose of this stunt is to scam readers. That's it. If execs aren't trying to fool readers into thinking stories written by the Error Robot came from real reporters, there would be no need for fake bylines. The intent is, quite explicitly, fraud.

flipping through a proof of yet another book from a somewhat well known liberal voice diagnosing “where the left went wrong” and i’m struck, again, by the fact that a large part (if not most) of the liberal commentariat simply does not believe that the political right has agency.

Is anybody in this administration not drunk on the job?

“Chavez-DeRemer had been facing a probe from the Labor Department’s inspector general for potential misconduct. That investigation has already resulted in multiple of her top staffers being placed on administrative leave and then ultimately leaving their posts.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

If you’re around Portland come hang out with us on Thursday to talk about the evolution of policing and how progressive politics sometimes acts as a cover for law enforcement violence, and how we can erode police power in every neighborhood. But like optimistic and happy, not depressed